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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right, the big problem with quality of life in SF is not crime.  It is cost of living.  SF is beautiful, relative safe for an American city and has pretty good weather. NIMBYism keeps housing supply low.  So people can’t afford to live here. If SF was such a hellhole, the average house wouldn’t cost over 1.5 million. [/quote]
It’s both. You don’t get what you pay for. Filth everywhere [/quote]

With all of the tech sector billions you'd think SF should and would tax those high flyers to provide the resources to deal with the homeless and clean up the streets.  For a supposedly liberal-run city it's odd that isn't happening. [/quote]

They have thrown simply stupid amounts of money at the problem.  It isn't a problem of resources.  It is a problem of an ideology that puts the interests of those who contribute nothing to society over those who are indispensable to society.

Sprawling homeless encampments, smash and grab looting gangs, rampant vandalism and property crime of all types... these are all manifestations of an unwillingness to address the problem. 
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The main problem with homelessness in the Bay Area is not enough housing. Yes, there are also chronically homeless who are unhoused for complex reasons, but the bigger issue in California is lack of housing. Solving this has become completely fraught, with rich people worried about property values and some progressives arguing that increasing the wrong kind of housing stock still unfairly punishes lower income residents. Personally, I just wish it were easier to build more housing here...[/quote]

As always, the richest f#(&ing it up for everyone else.[/quote]

If the richest are the ones controlling government, I totally agree. 
The wealthy people who live there are not creating the policies in SF.  They have a BILLION dollar budget to deal with homelessness.  Look to the politicians who are squandering that $$ and not beginning to solve the problem.  [/quote]

SF shows what the progressives can achieve with complete control of the local and state government and practically unlimited resources. 
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Several posters already pointed out above that the tech-sector libertarians subvert a lot of policy in SF.[/quote]

Seriously?  When was the last time someone other than a fringe left candidate was elected in SF?  How many years has it been since the Democrats had completely control of the state government?

This sounds like the sort of lunacy the Soviets practiced.  Decades after they had complete control of everything they continued to hunt for any hint of opposition, real or imagined, all to avoid admitting the simple truth, that their model simply didn't work.

The progressive policies that have been implemented in CA simply don't work, and the progressives have nobody to blame for their failure than themselves.

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